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NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — In the face of rapidly evolving threats on orbit, the Space Force is planning to establish an electronic warfare tactical operations center within the next few months, service leaders said Sept. 24.
Lt. Gen. David Miller, commander of Space Operations Command, said electromagnetic warfare — the ability to use the electromagnetic spectrum to sense, protect and communicate, as well as disrupt adversary capabilities — is a major area of potential and need for the service.
Over the next few months, the Space Force will field its first space electromagnetic warfare tactical operations center, which will allow the service to “globally command and control at a tactical level, the surveillance, tracking and targeting of [the] electromagnetic spectrum,” Miller said during a panel at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference.
“The deployment model for us is unsustainable,” he said. “So, now we have forward posture capability, able to globally build a situational awareness picture, understand where threat systems are employed, and simultaneously help posture and respond, all while maintaining the command authority and preserving it of the combatant commands.”
Miller said he is particularly excited about the service’s investment in electromagnetic warfare, and he is “very satisfied” with progress so far.
“I want to see more capability, obviously, in the hands of the operational units, and provide those capabilities to our service components and our combatant commanders,” Miller said. “But I think you're going to see over the next year, there's a lot of wins. … I think you’ll see a couple of key areas, surveillance, targeting and tracking of air, missile and space threats, will be a big win for us, I think, in the next year, as well as our capability to field and support function capability in our space control, either in global warfare, electromagnetic warfare and also in cyber warfare.”
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